From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is Elisp slow? Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 09:08:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20190503103644.63lccjehmzulaojn@Ergus> <456EE4D4-F542-4F6A-B146-E6B9D72AE93B@icloud.com> <83tvebn1we.fsf@gnu.org> <20190503125832.44ovncaxp3vyjsla@Ergus> <20190504133218.g3ysx3ksuyvlthg3@Ergus> <831BD780-F954-4E23-BF31-ED4E135C919B@icloud.com> <20190506125848.okei2qrib7m5p3vx@Ergus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="167619"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 06 15:08:25 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNdM0-000hUY-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 15:08:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNdLz-0000Zc-63 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 09:08:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNdLo-0000ZQ-6G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 09:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNdLn-00058D-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 09:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39816 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNdLn-00057p-7P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 09:08:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hNdLl-000hFl-Mi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 15:08:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:4Dqii6Kj9oory3MN7ARadew2zCc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120226 Archived-At: > That's what vim did and they now support many languages for extending > and create plugins. (I know it is a different system and I am not saying > we have to move in that direction right now.) Yes, it's a very different design. Elisp was designed to be the *implementation* language of Emacs (the use of C for some of the implementation was a necessary evil given the lack of wide availability of Lisp), rather than just an *extension* language. Stefan